Alvarez Maylan (5 results)

Softcover. Condition: Near fine. One of 200 copies. Oblong 16mo. Illustrations of buttons and broken plates by Elizabeth Valero Molina accompany poetry by Ãlvarez RodrÃguez (who here is credited as just Ãlvarez). As the hand-colored title page motif of teacups and buttons surrounding a cityscape, the book plots the tremors and habits of domestic life against the demands of modern, urban internationalism, conjured through references to the likes of Robert Plant and Russian author Isaac Babel's revolutionary short story, The Red Cavalry. By these two references alone, the poems offer themselves as metaphorically torn between American and Soviet influence, a reality borne out in Cuba's recent history. Bound in stiff covers incorporating denim, buttons, hand-colored paper, and broken ceramic. Stray rubs, else near fine.

Condition: Bueno. 1st ed. 28x17.5. 35pp. 3l. Wrappers, stapled. The cover is highly elaborate, featuring corrugated cardboard, recycled denim, buttons, pieces of plate, cut-out and coloured drawings, and torn-off titles. Risographed text; drawings interspersed throughout the text, others cut out and coloured by hand. Handwritten dedication. The poems are in Spanish and English. Print run of 200 copies. . Español.

Rústica grapada. Condition: Bueno. 1ª ed. 28x17.5 (apaisado). 35pp. 3h. Rústica grapada. La cubierta está muy elaborada, con cartón ondulado, tela reciclada de vaquero, botones, trozos de plato, dibujos recortados y coloreados, y títulos rasgados. Texto reproducido con impresora; dibujos entre texto, otros recortados y coloreados a mano. Dedicatoria autógrafa. Los poemas están en castellano y en inglés. Tirada de 200 ejemplares. .

Condition: Bueno. 1st ed. 18x24.3. 99pp. 6h. Wrappers, stapled. The cardboard covers are covered with crinkled paper coloured with watercolours; mounted on top are the titles and illustrations, cut out and illuminated, with the front cover featuring 'a majagua leaf collected by the children David and Alejandro'. The text is printed on white and brown paper, with a border and full-page illustrations. Includes a handmade bookmark. The index is on a 60cm 'parchment'. The anthology includes poems by 43 Cuban women poets, with 15 autographed dedications by Marta Teresa Tarifa, María Cristina Martínez, María Héctor Vega, Susej Niebla Santos, Yamilé Méndez, Tania Jiménez, Lucía Cristina Pérez, Bárbara Cruz López, Magaly Fariñas, Cecilia Soto, Yoleidys Hernández Jiménez, Norma Martínez, Loreley Rebull and Maylán Alvarez. Number 28 of 200 copies. More photos on our website. Español.

Softcover. Condition: Near fine. One of fifty copies. Octavo. 19pp. Illustrations and multiple fold-out elements throughout by the book's designer (and the press's founder), Rolando Està vez, accompany RodrÃguez's poetic meditations on women's sexuality, abortion, and menstruation. Sometimes celebratory, sometimes confrontational, and certainly unflinching, the verses reify the place of women in a patriarchal culture which reflexively assigns bodily functions to the category of the grotesque. Particularly visceral, provoking the reader to assess their own reactions, is a paper napkin painted to resemble a menstrual pad. Illustrations throughout are drawings of female body parts, rendered in Està vez's idiosyncratic take on surrealism. The colophon and the binding push the discussion to encompass, too, the capitalist engine motivating, and motivated by, the assignment of women to a second-class status: attached to the front cover is "Socialist Barbie made in China." Binding itself of stiff, stained wrappers with colorful illustrations and text pasted on, with yarn and blue cloth over spine. Creasing to crescent moon, which extends above the front panel, else a near fine publication from Està vez's second, more experimental press.